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👕 The Life-Cycle Math of Clothing

An interactive 3D pipeline that turns fiber choice, dyeing intensity, shipping mode and batch size into live water, energy and carbon footprint totals for a garment collection.

Mathematics3DAdvanced60 FPS💧 Water

A live 3D garment production pipeline — fiber source, spinning, dye vat and a shipping route to a garment rack — sits beside a bar chart totalling water, energy and carbon footprint per garment, so fiber choice, dyeing and freight decisions become numbers you can compare directly.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Each fiber carries a different baseline water/energy/carbon intensity per kilogram; dyeing intensity adds water and energy directly; and shipping mode changes the carbon cost per kilometre by more than an order of magnitude between sea and air freight.

🎮 How to Use

Switch fiber blend to see the source and bar chart change instantly, push dyeing intensity up to watch the vat darken and steam thicken, then compare sea versus air freight at the same distance to see which bar moves the most.

💡 Did You Know?

A conventional cotton T-shirt's water footprint can approach the volume of a full bathtub once irrigation is counted — while the same garment's transport footprint can multiply many times over just by switching from sea to air freight.

⚙ Under the hood

An interactive 3D pipeline that turns fiber choice, dyeing intensity, shipping mode and batch size into live water, energy and carbon footprint totals for a garment collection.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install